Is it learned helplessness or learned laziness? My mother can speak 5 different languages but "needed" me to show her how find her "My Documents" after she downloaded email attachments for years. It was amazing how after I stopped helping her with everything immediately ("Ma, I've got to finish this homework" is a remarkably effective retort) that she put in the effort to understand how to use this tool for her purposes.
I think more than anything there just hasn't been a good enough effort to help people get up the first part of the learning curve as they often have no idea where to start and people haven't been taught how to protect themselves, etc.
I agree with the earlier post that software designers have to want to make things simple, but people have to want to learn how to use it.
I think more than anything there just hasn't been a good enough effort to help people get up the first part of the learning curve as they often have no idea where to start and people haven't been taught how to protect themselves, etc.
I agree with the earlier post that software designers have to want to make things simple, but people have to want to learn how to use it.